The Faith of the Fathers

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GG-171

f. Ir: written with a pencil: ሃይማኖተ፡ አበው፡ (Haymanotä Abäw) but the front board has a diferent (erroneous ?) title: ጉባኤ / ሃዋርያት (Guba’e Hawaryat - Collection of the [Sayings of] the Apostles)

Michael Gervers (researcher)

Witold Witakowski (data contributor)

Initial folios missing; ff. 240a-b: added small folios of ca. 1/8th of a normal folio, written by another, more recent, hand; no title; ff. 241r-241v: an added untitled text, a list of the Fathers (the authors of the quotations in the main text ?) but since the names are written in red that vanished it is difficult to identify the text; f. 245v: two very short notes; f. II (rearguard), badly damaged, empty; Time Period Colophon f. 240vb,6-9 Amätä ‘Aläm “The year of the world (i.e., creation era) 706[4] (= AD 1571/2), during the reign of Mäläk Sägäd a k a Särsä Dengel (1563-97)

Number of folios: 1 (I) + 245 + 1 (II); European foliation; Number of quires: c. 35-37; difficult to count because many of the quires are split; Number of columns of the text: 2; Number of lines in columns: 23-24, ff. 135r-136v: 26; ff. 147r-152v: 19-20; ff. 188r-192v and 194r-207v: 28-29

Ethiopia

Tigray